doggedness
Example Sentences
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Lee pursued stories and investigations with a doggedness in the South and later on the West Coast, revealing poverty and corruption in small towns in West Virginia and misuse of taxpayer dollars in Sacramento.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2025
But sheer determination and doggedness were not enough to stop Swiatek or Krejcikova when it mattered.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024
Those numbers could be gathered in any number of means, each of which was in its own way a test of your resourcefulness, doggedness and the trust you’d earned.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023
Often underestimated by his opponents and sometimes by his supporters, Sanchez gained a reputation for doggedness when, as opposition leader in 2016, he stuck to his "no means no" mantra against enabling a conservative government.
From Reuters • Jul. 6, 2023
I did well in school not so much through cleverness as through doggedness.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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